Cultivating Quotes · Page 2

“In a sense we could say that the practice of generating and cultivating”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

— Matthieu Ricard

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”

— Libba Bray

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

— Upton Sinclair

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

— Ronald Reagan

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

— Tommy Hilfiger

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may…

— Dalai Lama

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

— Dalai Lama

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's…

— Steve Pavlina

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead…

— John C. Maxwell

Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion,…

— Deepak Chopra

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate…

— Eric Hoffer

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

— Anais Nin

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we…

— Paul Klee

When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle…

— Karen Abbott

Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed…

— Rob Brezsny

A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

“But if you don’t cultivate ‘turning it on’ as a way of life in the little moments—and there are hundreds of times…

— Timothy Ferriss

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by…

— Jason Silva

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their…

— George Orwell

With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current…

— Aberjhani

Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits…

— Pema Chodron

“If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it…

— Robert Henri

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…

— Albert Einstein

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

— Katori Hall

“When cultivating your garden, keep the soil healthy with encroachers. The most redolent flowers grow over graves.”

— Bauvard

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

— Jessica Mitford

You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.

— Steven Wilson

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

— Dalai Lama

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

— Anil Ambani

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves

— Andre Gide

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

— Vandana Shiva